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Caroline Sequin is an Assistant Professor of Modern European History at Lafayette College's History Department. She holds a Ph.D. in Modern European History from the University of Chicago and additional advanced degrees in Gender Studies and American Studies from French institutions. Her research focuses on race, gender, and migration in France and the French Empire, with a particular emphasis on colonial Senegal and the post-abolition era.
Her academic work includes Desiring Whiteness (2024), a forthcoming book examining commercial sex and racial politics in France and Senegal. Recent peer-reviewed articles explore colonial prostitution, binational marriages, and citizenship in transcolonial contexts. Her scholarship has been recognized with the Best Paper Prize from the Council for European Studies’ Gender and Sexuality Research Network and a special award from the Association des historiens contemporanéistes.
At Lafayette, she teaches courses on French Empire history, race and migration, sexuality, and historiography. Her current research project investigates 20th-century binational marriages and family migration patterns. She has received grants from the French Colonial Historical Society and the Society for French Historical Studies.
